Most exterior leaks don’t start in the middle of a wall. They start at the edges, where two parts of the house meet: the roof…
Category: Home Improvement
You walk in Monday morning and the office smells fine. By Thursday, something is off. The air feels heavy. Somebody props the front door open.…
Quick, from memory: how many pairs of shoes are in your front closet? What brand is your toaster? What did you pay for the couch?…
Gutters might be the least glamorous thing attached to your house and one of the most important. Their whole job is taking the water that…
Twenty minutes. That’s about how long a bad house fire lasts. Nobody warns you about the seven days after, when the adrenaline has drained off…
Every stucco wall cracks eventually. That is not a scare tactic, it is just the nature of the material. The finish is rigid, houses move,…
Carpet does more than soften a room. Think of it like a giant air filter lying on the floor. All year it’s catching dust, pollen,…
A tree limb comes through. A section of shingles is gone. Water is getting in. Most people freeze a little in that moment. That’s normal.…
It’s time to get that peeling bathtub reglazed: When the glaze on your bathtub begins to flake off, you may need to have it reglazed.…
People are said to be good neighbors if they have good fences. Even though that might be true most of the time, what if a…